Success in online classroom

1. Welcome!
Mr. Reynolds
Criminal Justice
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2. Welcome ALL
Criminal Justice
Students
Asynchronous students-
consider joining us
live in the future

3. Introduction
• Law enforcement professional for over
17 years
• Master peace officer, certified
investigator, law enforcement
instructor, field training officer,
supervisor, and firearms instructor
• 3 college degrees, including a master’s
degree in psychology and criminal
justice
• 3 boys: 18, 8, and 5
• I am passionate about criminal justice
and I love teaching young minds

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7. Bad Joke of the Day
• What do you call a flying policeman?

8. Today’s Agenda
• Polls and Discussion
Question
• Career Highlight: None.
Talking about classroom
success

9. Teacher Communication
• Please answer the phone if your
teacher calls or return the phone call
• Calls are important to relay vital
information
• Set up your voicemail
• If you screen your calls, save your
teachers’ numbers in your phone

10. Teacher Communication Cont‘d
• Webmails are also very important
• If a webmail is titled with the
words: progress, greetings, or
academic intervention, it means
they are high priority
• These webmails require effort
on your part
• They are sent for your benefit
so that you are successful and
can graduate on time

11. Let’s Hit the Polls
• There are 2 polls:
• Who is your criminal justice teacher?
• MOST IMPORTANT POLL (attendance purposes)
• Are you comfortable with the portfolios in your class?
• Feel free to share “why” in the answer pod
• Asynchronous learners: share through webmail

12. Let’s Hit the Polls Cont’d
• There are two open ended questions
• What do you think will be the most challenging
part of your criminal justice class? Quizzes,
discussion posts, portfolio assignments?
Something else? Why?
• What is one thing that you would like to learn in
your class?

13. Navigating your course
• Read all of the course
materials
• online textbook
• interactive presentation
(visual, audio, or both) along
with the study guide
• any other resource (some
lessons have embedded
websites and other
resources)

14. Quizzes
• Read all of the material
first and take good notes
to help you study
• Take your time and don’t
rush the quiz…they should
not be timed
• Eliminate wrong answers
first

15. Portfolios
• Read all of the instructions carefully
• Break in to chunks… some instructions are
very lengthy
• Do one step at a time until it’s finished
• ALWAYS double check your work and use
a spell/grammar checker tool
• This will simple step will save your grade
• If your word doc processor doesn’t have
one, look for a free one online

16. When in doubt: REACH OUT!!!
• Ask your teacher
• If you are provided with
examples, DO NOT CHEAT!

17. Tips for Success
• Stay on top of your planner
• If your planner needs adjusting, call the technical support
line…ask your teacher for their number
• Don’t wait until you are too far behind to start catching up
• Much better to work ahead then to get behind and try to
do several weeks worth of work the last month of the
semester
• It’s not recommended to submit blank docs or other
class’s work in a portfolio item to move on, but if you do,
COME BACK TO IT, they are heavily weighted
grades…hence why it takes work to complete them

18. Quick Recap
• Quizzes
• Portfolios
• Tips for Success

19. Questions?
• Need clarification on anything?

20. Thanks for Coming!!!
For those who could not join us today,
consider joining us next time!